1001 Interception of silver ships
Lin Yuan asked people to shout the words of persuasion, but found that there was no movement in the warehouse, so Lin Yuan asked people to continue to play the voice, and a soldier asked Lin Yuan: "How long will it be put this time?" ”
Lin Yuan smiled: "Keep letting it go, until they come out and surrender!" The sound continued for more than half an hour, and finally, a white flag was revealed on the roof of the building, and after a while, the door of the warehouse slowly opened, and a half-dead British officer led a group of dejected soldiers out of it, with cotton cloth tied to their ears and hands covering their ears, without even holding a gun!
Lin Yuan saw that they had surrendered, so the sound stopped, and the British officer walked up to Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Aren't you not surrendering?" ”
The British officer smiled bitterly and said, "That voice is so terrifying, what advanced weapons did you use to get them?" ”
Lin Yuan smiled, asked people to take the garlic jar and the glass pieces inside, and said with a smile: "This is our secret weapon!" ”
The British officer didn't know why, and Lin Yuan didn't explain much, so he asked them to take them down, and then they entered the warehouse, and when they got the account book inside, they counted it, and found that the amount of silver stored in it was two million taels, Chen Fei looked at the number "two million" and said: "There are so many silver deposits, we still have to check which ones are foreign foreign companies, and when will we find out!" ”
Lin Yuanha smiled and said, "Inventory? What is there to check, all this silver is ours! HSBC is completely down! But on the surface, we say, 'We're just going to take stock of the HSBC money, and when the check period is over, we'll return the money to the HSBC.' But when the inventory period will come is not certain! ”
Chen Fei laughed and said, "You are really shameless! ”
At this moment, Lin Yuan received a message from the scout: "Report to Lin Shuai, it's not good, the British are loading silver on the ship, and it seems that they will be transported away soon!" ”
Lin Yuan asked, "How much time do they have left to sail?" ”
The scout said, "Twenty minutes to go!" ”
Lin Yuan said angrily: "Why didn't you report earlier?" ”
The investigator said innocently: "The British put all the silver in a big box, and said that it was a personal belonging, and I wasn't sure that it was silver. ”
Lin Yuan replied: "I know the truth!" You keep watching. ”
Lin Yuan turned off the communicator, and Chen Fei immediately asked, "Do you want us to rush over immediately?" ”
Lin Yuan shook his head and said: "No, the reason, first: we are not close to the dock here, and I am afraid that it will be too late; Second: such a large treasury must not be left unguarded, as soon as we leave, someone will definitely come to steal the silver, in that way, not only will we suffer the loss of economic interests, but we will also lose face in the international community! ”
Chen Fei asked, "Then what should we do?" Watching the British get rid of the silver? ”
Lin Yuan thought for a moment and said, "In this way, I will go to the dock first, get on the mocking wind ship, and use the mocking wind ship to chase their transport fleet, we are a warship, and it will not be a problem to beat them with a transport fleet!" You're here to guard the warehouse while waiting for them to come! ”
After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he got into the off-road vehicle first, arrived at the dock, got on the mocking wind ship, and learned that the transport fleet had left the port, Lin Yuan immediately ordered: "Chase!" ”
There were ten large transport ships in the British fleet, which was very obvious on the radar of the mocking wind ship, and the British transport fleet was limited by performance, and the speed was only about eight knots, so Lin Yuan ordered the mocking wind ship to increase the speed to thirty knots, and soon caught up with the transport fleet.
At this moment, the radar room reported: "There is a ship approaching the enemy convoy from the northeast at a speed of fifteen knots, and when it approaches the convoy, the speed is reduced to eight knots, and it is moving in the same direction as the convoy!" ”
Lin Yuan then asked, "The optical observation post, can you capture the optical image of the newly entered ship?" ”
The optical observation post then sent the image of the newly entered ship to the screen in front of Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan looked at the ship on the screen and couldn't help but say, "This is actually a warship!" ”
Wu Xinghai asked on the side: "Warship? British? ”
Lin Yuan pointed to the British flag fluttering above and said, "That's right, it's British!" Then Lin Yuan pointed to the ship and said, "You see, there are two masts on the warship, two main turrets, and the main turrets are arranged along the centerline of the hull, which should be the majestic class battleship (HMSMajestic) of the British Royal Navy!" ”
Wu Xinghai asked: "There are British warships in Shanghai Port?" ”
Lin Yuan nodded and said, "That's right, the last time I came to buy tin ore, I found that there are indeed British warships here!" ”
Wu Xinghai said: "Then what should we do? ”
Lin Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "First of all, we can't sink him, we can use all kinds of excuses and reasons to get rid of their bank, but we can't hit their warship, if we hit their warship, it will be a declaration of war!" And we can't get too close to them! ”
Wu Xinghai asked, "Can't get too close to them?" What is this for? ”
Lin Yuan said: "The main combat weapon of our warship is missiles, after the missile takes off, it needs to be guided by the radar, before the radar is successfully guided, the missile will do a flight without a target, this distance will not attack any target, this distance is called the minimum launch distance of the missile, if the distance between us and the enemy ship is within the minimum launch distance, then our missile is equivalent to being scrapped!" ”
"As soon as our missiles are scrapped, it is equivalent to our arms being scrapped, although we still have artillery, but in a close battle with the opponent's large-caliber heavy artillery, even if we win, we will kill a thousand enemies and lose 800 ourselves! So we can't get too close to enemy ships! If I knew that Lu Dao would face today's situation, I should have loaded a torpedo on a warship! ”
Wu Xinghai asked helplessly: "Then how should we fight?" ”
Lin Yuan said: "Salute first, then soldiers, go up and negotiate with them first!" I saw that the enemy ship was on the north side of the fleet, so we went to the south side of the fleet and forced the transport ship to stop first. ”
Wu Xinghai immediately gave an order, and the Mocking Wind ship turned its course and headed towards the south side of the fleet, at which time the radar room reported: "The enemy warship is heading towards our ship!" The distance is five thousand meters. ”
Wu Xinghai asked, "Will their warships fire at us?" ”
Lin Yuan shook his head silently, thinking in his heart: "The minimum launch distance of our missiles is three thousand meters, if the enemy ship enters this distance, our missiles will have no way to take it!" What to do? Need to get an idea as soon as possible. ”
At this moment, a message came from the warship on the opposite side: "Who are you?" For what is following the convoy of the British Empire, please leave quickly. ”
Lin Yuan said to his subordinates: "Send them such a message, we are the Chinese Navy, and we suspect that pirates are hiding in the transport fleet, for the safety of your crew, please stop the ship and assist us in the inspection." ”
The majestic ship sent another message: "We can solve it ourselves, please leave quickly!" ”
Lin Yuan only felt at a loss, he couldn't fight, he didn't fight, what should he do?